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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04

every inspiration twenty cubic inches of
air are used up and then expelled in a
| condition unfit for the lungs. Each per-
son destroys four hundred cubic inches OF
fresh air every minute. A thousand peo-
pie will exhaust four million cubic inches
in the same time. 1t will be seen
how quickly the wholesome atmos-
phera OF church is exhausted. And
then the nostrils drink in only the re-
fuse-carbonic acid gas. hostile to eli ami
NAL life. slow poisoning begins. Peo-
pie OF delicate nerves give away. Women
faint. Men, weak at some point of the
anatomy. collapse. The bronchial tubes
| become congtsteG and irritated The
rush OF chilly air in the street on this in
| famed lining of the lungs sets up pneu
monia, fever, colds. Brain workers,
especially, cannot resist this famine of
oxygen.
| When throng oveTflows 8 building at
night the evil grows worse. One gss-iet
vita .es as much ar as eight human be
! lngs. This accounts for the greater or
! preston felt in densely filed public
! place at night than IL the same gathering
in the Gay time. The audience Of the pop-
ular preacher pays for the privilege of
havlag an eloquent ;nan in the pulpit.
And the attendandance a. theatres or
balls, with hundreds of blszing lights and
a crushing multitude, far from healthy
recreation, is damaging in no small de
gree.
And this leads US to say that sections
ought TO have instructions in these mat
tiers. tharches should be opened at once
and thoroughly ventilated after each
service. The air for the furnaces should
not &c taken from the lecture room. but
without. The Sunday-schooI renders the
air unhealthy in that apartment. That
unwholesome supply ought not to be sent
ups stairs through the registers for the
congregation.
Men nod in the pews end snore IN the
amen corner. The pulpit is heavy. The
architect and the sexton are the sinners.
door-keeper of the house of the Lord
can be the ally of Satan and death. Air
once breathed returns loaded with g. gas
that produces sleep, and in suffi lent
Quantities, the "sleep that knows no
waking" 1t is a struggle to preach,
to keep the eye-llds open, On some
occasions. sThe dead air of q month
has never been driven out Of the church.
After the sermon the doors are shut, and
the corrupted air is preserved for tie
next audience, and so on. The warm
city church kills more people than the
log meeting house. And the people ere
not as drowsy and dull in the chapel as in
the cushioned sanctuary. Our civiliZA-
ton has its drawbacks. The country
conventicle has its competitions.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04
THE RAILROADS.
The st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas
Makes a Definite Proposition to
C0rsicana and Weatherf0rd.
Crockett and Houston County Desire Con
nection with Fort Worth-The Denton
Western Meeting.
Home Notes

All trains were late last night with the
exception OF the Gulf, Colorado Santa
Fe.
A special coach of the Houston & Texas
Central was hauled to Gainesville last
night by the Santa Fe.
Tracklayipg on the Fort Worth & Den
yer is rapidly approaching ouanab, and 1t
is probable that It will be reached by the
9TH of this month.
Col. Tkos. +. Fisher, general stock
agent of the Missouri Pacific, and j. Z
Galbraith, general freight agent for the
same road, went South yesterday.
Governor Brown has returned from
New Orleans, accompanied, it is said by
the general manager, John A. Grant, who
will IN few days 90 over the entire line
of the Texas & Pacific.
H c. Brown, travelling auditor of the
Texas & Pacific, was in he city last night
and brought the news that Cooper n 1T
had been appointed consolidated freight
agent of the Missouri Pacific and Texas &
Pacific roads at Dallas.
The south-bound Missouri Pacific,
which has been late for two nights, " as
delayed by the burning of six spans of a
bridge near Miugo, q small station three
miles north of Denton. The superstition
is that the fire was either the work of an
incendiary or the result OF careless
campers who built fire in too close
proximity to the framework. The loss
will run up in the thousands.
The committees representing the citi-
zens of Denton, Decatur and Jacksboro
in the matter of the Denton & Western
met in Fort Worth yesterday. Judge
Carroll and Crane, representing Dentoa,
Messrs. Shoemaker and Mayes, Decatur,
and Messrs. West and Hensey,
Jacksboro. The plans for the build
ing of the road were matured,
and City Engineer King was
appointed chief engineer of the new road.
1t is the intention Of the projectors of the
road to have that portion of the road be
tween Denton and the Atchison Santa Fe
completed inside of ninety days, and the
road in operation from Denton to Jacks
borO before the close OF 1887. The Den
ton G Western is an assured fact.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04

South Atlantic states is growing, and the
energy and the money are at hand to
meet the want.
The material growth will come. Hands
and brains VIII be busy. When New
Years day eawns again, the line man
shall have accomplished the duties that
will at him for the position Of chief en-
gineer; the section hand shall have moved
forward toward the SUPPLEMENTARY, and
the CLERK shall have advanced a step
nearer to the place held by the general
manager.
The year just opening will be eventful
and full of possibilities. At its end these
possibilities will have been realized by
those who exercise the most courageous,
intelligent perseverance.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04
FORT WORTH & SOUTHEASTERN.
A STRONG AND CONVINCING LETTER AS TO
ITS GREAT BENEFITS TO US.

lio UhhAi BENEFITS 10 US.
CROCHET, Ten, Dec. so, 1856
To the Editor OF the Gazette
A close personal inspection OF this sec
ton Of the state, having in view the prob
ability of an extension of the Fort Worth
& New Orleans railroad, convinces US
more thoroughly than ever before of the
great Importance to the city of Fort
Worth of direct communication with the
great pineries of the southeastern portion
OF the state. l sm convinced that it
would lie difficult 10 conceive of an outlet
from Fort Worth that would more mater.
tally conduce to its substantial benefit
than direct and practical route to the
vast wealth of timber for which this por-
ton OF our state is peculiarly distin-
guished. l am of opinion that the growing
demands OF city like Fort Worth, whose
character for business energy IS not only
the signal for the onward march of i'm
provement in Texas, but which has been
an inspiration even beyond this state, rem
der the construction of railway into this
section not only future possibility, but
actually demand 1t as an early business
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04

Indications all point to great activity in
every kind of business during the ensuing
twelve months. Before 1887 shall have
completed its circle vast achievements
will be consummated. The energies are
now active, and although in this latitude
winter is thought to mark hiatus in the
commercial and industrial current of the
year, the bounding pulse of business
scarcely feels the chill.
1t has been said that i on constitutes
the mercury in the commercial thermom-
eter; but the railways, being the largest
consumers must, to preserve the figure
of speech, be deemed the solar agency,
causing the rise or fall along the gauge.
The railway construction already plan
ned for 1887 is very large, and It would
scarcely be a matter of surprise if the
record of 1882, exceeding that OF any
other year, should be equaled before DE.
cem0er 81. Every mile of new road Calls
for labor on the grade, rails from the
rolling mills, cars from the shops, luce
motives from the work., and, indirectly,
food and clothing for all those coRtr:but-
ing their efforts to the opening and equip
ping of new lines.
The older railway companies of the
West have prof cts for reaching new ter
ritory and terrifying their positions. The
Ehicsgo 6 Northwestern is stretching out
across Wyoming territory, and is looking
iongingly toward the Pacific coast.
The Missouri Pacific, the Atchison and
the st. Louis & San Francisco are all
guarding jealousy their interests in the
Southwest. Kansas and Texas are rich
and growing states, and every point of
vantage is being rapidly occupied.
The measureiess resources of the South
demand new avenues of access to the
markets east, north and west. The need
Of new railway lines In all of the Gulf and
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04
VIII Patronize the Frisco.

Special to the Gazette.
TAHLEoUAR, 1. T., Jan. 81. Thomp-
son, one of the largest merchants in the
Territory, doing business at this place,
said to your reporter to-day: 81 have
been shipping all my goods over the Mis-
souri, Pacific for dozen or more years,
but propose to change nv base now,
and 1 am not alone either, as that
road is charging US Territory mer-
chants such exhorbitant high rates.
Hereafter 1 propose to have my goods
shipped over the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco. can do better even if it is little
further to haul by wagons"
The talk is loud aud long by the mer-
chants of this section in regard to freight
rates they have been paying the Missouri
Pacific and they all talk of pooling
and trying the Frisco.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04

ST. PAUL, MINI, Jan. 3.-W. r. Mer-
ryan, prominent banker of this city,
carried the caucus of the Republican
members of the safe legislature tonight
for speaker of the house by forty
seven to nineteen, which insures
his election on the converting of
the legislature tomorrow. He was
supported by his friend, ex-Gov. C. K.
Davis, candidate for United States SEN
ator to succeed Mr.. Mcmillan, and the
above result, it is thought, practically in
sures the election of MIR. Davis.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04

Special to the Gazette.
LAMrAsAs, TEX, Jan. 3.-A delegation
of citizens from Llano, among them Col
w. a. H. Miller, W. 7. Moore, DR.. J. G.
Dubose and Mr.. Higdon, are here con-
ferring with the citizens of Lampasas
with the view of railroad connections be-
tween the two places. The delegation
ORG empowered to act, having funds
already raised, and from the propositions
made there is no doubt that ultimate
good will result.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04
Do YOU WANT STAMP
An Automatic Device for Furnishing Letter
Materials at Every Corner.
New York Newsdc aler and statloner.

New York Newsdealer and Stationer.
Everybody has seen the automatic
weighing scales at the ferries, which
weigh any enc who comes along, and col
lects fee for it IN busness-like manner
The automatic newsboy, who furnishes
you with any Newspaper You desire on
your dropping the required change
into his hand has been proposed and will
possibly stand on every street corner at
some day in the future. At present an
automatic box is being put up on the lamp
posts in Brooklyn to supply he public
with postage stamps, postal cards, a
pencil and postal letter envelopes.
At any hour of the DAY or night citi-
zen may go to one Of these boxes and
drop penny into it, at which there will
appear postal card and pencil with
which to write letter. If he has letter
already written and merely wants post
age stamp to mail it he may droG two
pennies in the box at which, presto, q
two-cent stamp will come out of the box
These convenient boxes are already in
use in London, and are much liked there
The boxes in Brooklyn are an improve
ment on those in London. They look
like writing desks, and are seventy-fve
inches high by seventeen inches deep.
Each box is divided into several draw
ers-one for stamps, one for postal cards,
one for stamped envelopes and one for
letter paper. There is slot for drop
ping coin over each drawer. When the
proper coin drops in it sets in motion a
bit of machinery which pushes out the
article wanted.
No one has TO stand by the box to guard
it. 1t is complete business man in it
self. 1.-THE box proves a success in
Brooklyn it will be introduced in New
York, and an effort will be made to have
this new postetfice department placed in
ali The cities nf the limited States
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04
INVISIBLE Poison.
A Lecture on Pure Air for Fort Worth's
Churches, Schools and Halls.
Richmond Christian Advocate.

Richmond Christian Advocate.
There is singular coincidence in the
fact that in November, during the sitting
of the Presbyterian synod of Virginia IN
Richmond and the Methodist conference
in Norfolk delegate in each body was
smitten by appoplexy-Professor Shepard
snd Gen. Lilley.
The bad air of halls, theaters and
churches with large crowds tell fatally.
1t rarely fails to occur that sickness su-
pervenes during conference among its
members and visitors. Several robust
persons were ailing during the session, or
have succumbed since adjournment.
1t is well known that air breathed over
and over again is inhaled poison. At
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04
Postmaster Arrested.

SpeCIiI 70 the Gazetle.
JEFFERSON, Tex, Jan. 81. B.O'Far-
rell, postmaster at Atlanta, was to-day
arrested before Commissioner Singleton
on the charge Of unlawful detention of
mail. He waived his examination and
gave $3.50 bail to appear at the February
term of the United States court.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04
Coal Laborera stxiks.

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Jan. SIX hun
dred laborers on the coal docks at
Bayonne struck this morning against a
reduction of wages.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04

Don't throw away yodr money, but when in
need of good linine4 buy Salvation oil.
1915 81. bnrtl ofsDsz. Bulls Cough syrup
were sold IN tho lasftweISs months.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04
ON TO RROWNWOOD.

WACO LOOKING TO THE LAND WHICH FORT
WORTH IS REACHING OUT FOR.
The Examiner is delighted that at last
its pet scheme, a railroad to Brownw God,
is being earnestly agitated, not by Waco
men alone, but by other earnest men in
the country along the proposed route
The presence in this city of DR.. Perry of
Hamilton, for the avowed purpose of tap
ping public sentiment, is in and Of itself
an assurance that st last the talk period
has been passed and the stage Of action
reached.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04

Two perfect repedies-St. Jacobs Oil
and Red Star Cough Cure.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04

an assurance that st last the talk period
has been passed and the stage Of action
reached.
Dallas and Fort Worth have their eyes
on this objective point, Brentwood, but
with the best they can do, they can only
drain that one county and reach out far
Their West for the Pickering trade in the
direction of the Pecos, while road from
Waco would reach and drain Bosque, ali
of the upper part of Coryell, all of Ham
ilton, and here it would catch the rich
valleys of the Upper Leon and Cow House
rivers; drain all OF Coma1che and Brown
counties and reach for G leman and all
the Pecos country rs would either Dali
las or Fort Worth line. The region thus
tapped is already wonderfully rich. This
road would put such spur to it as would
drive it ahead with speed rarely ever
seen in Western development.
This single route would be worth all
other completed lines in value to US, and
it would only be second to the proposed
Midland in Importance. 1t will bind the
rich trade of the section to which it is
projected to Waco with indissoluble
bonds of steel. This trade alone would
be sufficient in ten years to give Waco
population of $4,000 people. In the light
of sure results, such as these, it behooyes
our mighty men of trade to be up and
doing. This plum belongs to Waco by
royal right of consequently. Let gs see
to it than neither Dallas nor Fort Worth
reach up first and pluck it. Waco needs
it and must nave it. Let there be no I'M
necessary delay. Let US pluck the
ripened fruit rather than stand supinely
oy and see other hostile places pick it
f'om the very fingers eagerly out
stretched Waco Examiner.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-04

CONDITIONS UPON WHICH THE ST. LOUIS,
ARKANSAS & TEXAS WILL BUILD TO
WEATHERFoRD.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04

been set in for exhibition. From open
ings stepped one above another lead
balconies, which are the boxes, and
which are so placed that the occupants
can see the Stage-a rarity. All this
part of the theatre, from proscenium
opening to boxes, is mass of carved
wood, pacruSta work and lincruSta wal
ton. The stage of the theater is an
ample one, and no better equipped can
be found outside of the metropolis. The
dressing rooms are all on the stage level,
and there is also large scene room, in
an annex, so as to relieve the over
burdened grooves from their stock.
The drop curtain, painted by Moses, is
a beautiful piece of work, representing
a scene i'll the Isle of Malta, apparently
painted Oh an Indian shawl.
The design of the theater is, of course,
East Indian and the upholstery and
seats will follow out this idea; the seats
will be of polished cherry, upholstered
in blue plush, and the chairs in the
boxes will be upholstered in parti colors.
The draperies and carpets have been
especially designed for the house and
will add the last touch that makes the
Hennepin Avenue theater "a Joy for
ever"
The seating capacity will be total of
1,700, with standing room for 400 more
and this includes twelve proScenium
boxes and fourteen logeS.
Both the incandescent electric light
and gas will be used in the theater,
which is heated by steam by the under
floor warming process.
This theater will be formally opened
by Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04
TO BE INVESTIGATED.
Supt. Berry Will be Called Upon to
Explain Certain Matters.


Yesterdays meeting of the board of
park commissioners corresponded with
the weather, and was dull and tedious.
A communication from Engineer f. HI.
Nutter, dated July 80, was read, in re-
gard to the elevation of Lake Calhoun,
in which it was stated that the lowering
Of the water was due more to dry
weather than because of the escape
from the outlet. A communication was
received from the Minneapolis Bicycle
club in which thanks were returned for
allowing the club the use of Harriet
boulevard for its twenty-five-mile road
race. G. Nee. Reeve wrote the board
asking that he should be given an eX-
tended contract for supplying refresh
ment booths. boats, etc, lat Lake Harriet.
He explained that the investment was
too large to warrant his fitting up the
grounds in firSt-class style unless he
conld have some assurance that
his contract should continue for more
ferred to a special committee. The
committee on finance reported that the
Tribune was charging the board adver-
Using rates in excess of what the city
pays. A bill of $50 for couple of swans
purchased by Supt. Berry without
being authorized by the board was laid
On the table. The monthly pay roll,
amounting to S7,S04, was ordered paid.
The committee on Prospect Park OBJ
servatory reported in favor of the ac-
ceptance of the bid of Berg & McArdle
for the construction of the observatory
for S2,505. 1t was brought out that the
board was going to run short of funds.
Commissioner Sutherland and Mayor
AmeS, however, thought that Prospect
Park should have the observatory this
fall, and the report was accepted and a
contract ordered drawn up. Five hun
dred dollars appropriated for the i'm
provement of Oak lake was ordered ex-
pended.
Supt. Berry who was present had not
up to this time said anything concern
ing the recent charges through the
newspapers against his official conduct
and Mayor AmeS remarked:
had hoped Supt. Berry would ask for an
investigation and put an end to this talk
about him. / think his skirts are clear and
that i'll justice to himself he should ask for
an investigation. If he does not 1 move O.
committee of three be appointed to invest1-
gate.
AT this Mr.. Berry said he should be
happy to be investigated. The chair
appointed Commissioners Sutherland,
Brown and Gilman as the committee.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04

being fact, the injustices in social con-
dltlons will be remedied. There are, to
be sure. economic poisons that are held
up as remedies by the different reform
ers. Still believe that men like Henry
George, Marx, Owen and others have in
augurated the correct tendency of the
epoch. You will always hear the men
ton nowadays of the word socialist.
This man is socialist and that one is
not, and so on. Now, socialist and soci-
alist spell the same, but are in reality
two different things. When was at the
head OF the SOcialiStic movement in
Minneapolis / always tried to awaken
the wOrkingmen to that moral force,
energy of holy, virtuOus purpose, with
out which every man is slave amidst
the freeSt institutions.
And, as to my fellow cOuntrymen.
wish to say this before l leave. Ye are
the sons of the sturdy inhabitants of
the icy north, the descendants of the
Vikings. Ye are the bones and sinews
in this glorious state. Ye must come to
the front in fair proportion to your num-
bers. There is. as have had occasion
to say before to you, in this, the new
world of America, but one supreme be-
ing: the people. Ye are the Scandina-
Wan part, and don't forget it. Next
summer hope I will be back again and
then remain amidst you. | shall then
champion your cause as / have done
here1ntO. Meanwhile my best well
wishes to YOU all.